"Miscellaneous Poems of Jihai" (2)
Gong Zizhen
The sun is setting in the day when I am about to leave, and I sing my whip to the east and point to the end of the world. (Feelings of Leaving Beijing)
The falling red is not a heartless thing, it turns into spring mud to protect the flowers. (Luohua’s selfless dedication)
[Note]
1. Gong Zizhen: an outstanding writer in modern times.
2. Vast sentence: Vast, vast and far-reaching, which means vast. It's dusk when the sun sets and the sun sets.
3. Yin whip sentence: Yin whip means horse whip; east point means going out of the city gate to the east; Tianya means the horizon. This sentence says that when you leave the gate of Beijing, you will be isolated from the imperial court, just like being as far away as Tianya Tun.
4. Luohong: falling flowers.